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Sorry, I must be influenced by my proximity to the border. Just thought we were in the US

We are in the US but the worldwide web takes us beyond the borders with others of the same intrest. I am sure there are others that can weld that would like to post pics that maybe don't know how. I see non english speaking welders everyday at the refinery. 15 or 20 at a time. It looks like thats how the sub contractor culture is going with or without us. Some of those guys are really good at their welding skills. I don't know who taught them but there is somplace turning out top welders...Bob

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Yes, this nation wasn't founded by xenophobes. I'd rather go to a translation website than attack the poster. After all, he's not even threatening to come here and only asks for recognition of his welding skills.

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Perhaps it's time for you idiot old timers to quit watching Archie Bunker reruns and learn a second language. Oh wait - you're weldors - you're too smart to have to learn a second language.

Learning a second language is always a good idea. No doubt about it.
But it will neither make you a better person nor will it solve the problem everytime. I speak German and some English. If I would ever want to post on a Spanish language welding forum I'd do it in English, knowing that it's the wrong language for that board. Do you really think that would lead to a discussion over there whether I should learn a third language or the board members should learn English?

Somewhere I've red the line that "welding is an international language". I think that after looking at the pictures everyone here knows the content of the first posting even without reading the text. So I guess that every board member is already learning at least a second language. Agreed?